Marking-card for milk-bottles



R. G. HEARD.

MARKING CARD FOR MILK BOTTLES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24. 1920.

1,353,531., Patntedfiept. 21,1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RALPH G. HEARD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 TOLMAN ZPRINT,INC., 01 BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

MARKING-CARD FOR MILK-BOTTLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 21, 1920.

Application filed June 24, 1920. Serial No. 391,423.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, RALPH G. HEARD, a citizen of the United States,residin at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and tate of Massachusetts,have invented new and useful Improvements in ,Marking-Cards forMilk-Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is embodied in an annular marking card of flexibleresilient sheet material, such as cardboard, or relatively thick paper,bearing printed indicia, indicating ownership, and having integraltongues projecting radially inward from the inner margin of the card,said margin being formed to pass over the bead of the milk bottle neck,and the tongues being formed and arranged to be flexed from the plane ofthe card by said neck, and to bear yieldingly on the neck and abutagainst the bead to prevent accidental removal of the card from theneck.

The card when connected with the milk bottle, holds conspicuously insight the owners name, and other indicia suggesting to a customer thedesirability of placing the bottle so that it can be taken up by themilkman.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a plan view of a marking card embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is a side view of a portion of a milk bottle, and an edge view ofthe card applied,

thereto.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of thefigures.

In the drawings, 12 represents an annular card of flexible resilientsheet material, such as paper of such thickness that when sprung from afiat position, will have a tendency to again become flat.

The central portion of the dlsk from which the card is made is cut outto form an opening 13, preferably of the form shown by Fig. 1, themargin of said opening having outer segmental portions 14, innersegmental portions 15, and substantially radial portions 16.

The marginal portions 15 and 16 form the free ends and longitudinaledges of tongues 17 integral with the card, and projecting radiallyinward from the marginal portions 14.

When the cardis pressed downwardly upon the bead 18 of the milk-bottleneck 19, the bead passes through the opening 13, the segmental portions14 of said opening constituting segments of a circle of substantlallythe same diameter as the maximum diameter of the bead. The tongues '17are flexed by the bead until they pass below the latter, the resilienceof the sheet material then causing the tongues to spring inwardly andbear yieldingly on the neck, and abut against the bead, to preventaccidental removal of the card from the neck.

The card is adapted to be slipped quickly to place upon the bottle neck,and when in place, can be removed only by force suflicient to disengagethe tongues from the head.

The segmental outer portions 14 of the opening margin are concentric.with the center of the card, and are adapted to be seated on the flaringportion of the bottle belowthe bead 18, and thus cause the bottle tosupport the card in a plane substantially at right angles with thelongitudinal axis of the bottle, as shown by Fig. 2, said portionsbearing simultaneously on the bottle so that the card is confinedagainst edgewise movement in any direction. The radial edges 16 of eachtongue converge from the junction of the tongue with the body of thecard to the free end of the tongue. Each tongue is therefore wider atits junction with the body of the card than at its free end, so that theresistance of the sheet material to fiexure at the junction of thetongues and body, and the pressure of said free ends against the neck,are increased.

claim:

An annular marking card of flexible resilient sheet material having acentral opening formed to receive the beaded neck and a portion of theflaring body of a milk bottle, the margin of said opening includingouter portions adapted to be seated simultaneously on the flaring bodyof the bottle and cause the latter to support the card in a planesubstantially at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the bottle,and prevent edgewise movement of the card'in any direction,substantially radial portions extending inwardly from said outerportions, and forming the opposite edges of radial tongues, and

inner portions forming the free ends of said tongues, the tongues beingdisplaceable by the operation of applying the card to the bottle, andadapted to spring inward against the neck and engage the neck bead, toprevent aecidental removal ofthe cardfrom the bottle, the radial edgesof each tongue I converging, so that the tongues are wider at theirjunction with the body of the card than at their free en the sheetmaterial to ds, whereby the resistance of 10 fiexure at the junction ofthe tongues and body, and the pressure of said free ends against theneck, are increased. In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

